[lbo-talk] Socialim [was: Cheery thought for the next 300 years

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Feb 22 14:19:03 PST 2006


Chris Doss wrote:
>
> Didn't you know that alphabetical order is a tool of
> the ruling class?
I'm definitely not friendly to anarchism, and I do appreciate the advantages of alphabetization -- but you do realize that arranging information alphabetically (I used to know when it was introduced -- 17th or 18th c.?) destroys other kinds of order in the arrangement of information? It isn't a matter of order vs disorder but, more accurately, disorder vs disorder. It is certainly chaos is come again when atom, atheism, and atheling are all grouped together arbitrarily on the same page.

Carrol



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